According to analysts, the Kremlin expects an aggressive attitude from the leader of the Celestial Empire towards Ukraine’s allies. But Xi Jinping is in no hurry to call the West his enemy.
Xi Jinping, President of China and leader of the Chinese Communist Party, offered less support than the Kremlin chief had probably hoped, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 20. This was reported by the “Institute for War Studies” in its March 20 summary.
During the meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping, the two leaders praised the Sino-Russian ties, but expressed different views on the scope of the future relationship compared to the texts of the articles published before the talks at the Kremlin.
In an article by Putin in the Chinese state media, it was said that the Russian Federation and the PRC have partnered for a multipolar world order, while the collective West seeks a policy of domination and double deterrence (Beijing and Moscow).
Xi’s Rossiyskaya Gazeta article described a less aggressive end goal of bilateral relations, and the West was not directly labeled as an enemy. The leader of Communist China insisted on his country’s role as a mediator in the peaceful resolution of the war in Ukraine.
Putin responded by saying that Russia welcomes China’s desire to “play a constructive role in managing the crisis” in Ukraine. But he expected an equally aggressive stance from Beijing towards the West, according to analysts.
Military researchers call the refusal of the president of the People’s Republic of China to openly take Moscow’s side in the geopolitical conflict with the West as a retreat from the revealing “unlimited friendship” of the Russian Federation and China, as represented by Vladimir Putin.
Xi’s rhetoric shows that he is not inclined to give Russia full economic and political support to help make up for war miscalculations.
They roughly express the idea of a general economic partnership, and this may point to possible trade deals and economic deals that will be signed after the meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping. Some may be aimed at circumventing Western sanctions.
Uncertainty also remains regarding the possible delivery of Chinese weapons to Russia.
Recall that the informal talks held in the Kremlin between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping on March 20 lasted 4.5 hours the previous day. After the meeting held at the representative office in the first building of the Kremlin, the conversation between the heads of state continued at the dinner table. Putin offered the Chinese guest sturgeon soup, pancakes with quail, venison with cherry sauce, Far Eastern seafood and cake for dessert.
Previously Focus He reported how they talked about the eighth meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Source: Focus
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